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The Early History of “Photosynthetica”, “Photosynthesis Research”, and their Publishers

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The history of the journals “Photosynthetica” and “Photosynthesis Research” is traced from its beginning. Their development is related to the history of several publishers (Dr W. Junk Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff, Kluwer Academic Publishers). This account is based on recollections and records of the authors, Ad C. Plaizier, and René Marcelle (the first Editor-in-Chief of Photosynthesis Research).

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  1. Departments of Plant Biology and Biochemistry, and Center of Biophysics & Computational Biology, University of Illinois, 265 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL, 61801-3707, USA

    Govindjee

  2. Institute of Experimental Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Na Karlovce 1a, 160 00, Praha 6, Czech Republic

    Z. Šesták

  3. Backhuys Publishers — The Netherlands, P.O. Box 321, 2300 AH, Leiden, The Netherlands

    W.R. Peters

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Govindjee, Šesták, Z. & Peters, W. The Early History of “Photosynthetica”, “Photosynthesis Research”, and their Publishers. Photosynthetica 40, 1–11 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020169502548

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